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Mata Hari is a brown filly owned by Charles T. Fisher (Bodies). She won five out of her eight starts last year, among them the Lassie Stakes, Breeders' Futurity and the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, a stepping stone for such Derby winners as Twenty Grand. Point against her is that she is nervous in large fields, is said to be "so inbred she is her own aunt...
...about streamlining and wind-resistance, he experimented with little hoods to be strapped on his horses' heads. More disastrous was his notion, abetted by an Akron (Ohio) oculist, that horses with defective vision would run better if equipped with glasses. Result was a large bill and one disabled jockey, the rider of the first terrified mount in spectacles. But to Colonel Bradley goes credit for introducing the fibre skullcap, first worn by his jockeys, now used by all to prevent serious head injuries in falls...
...better luck than usual when his Thomond II finished third last week, is William Collins Whitney's grandson. Delaneige, who led the field most of the way, is owned by John B. Snow, merchandise manager of Woolworth's in England. G. H. Wilson, Golden Miller's jockey, is a Canadian, champion British gentleman jockey with 61 victories last year...
...promised as a result of the avoidance of a strike in the motor industry points the way to peace in the labor world. The problems are by no means all settled. Many of them will present new an difficult aspects because both sides will continue to jockey for position. But it is significant that lists of members both of employee unions and A. F. of L. groups must be made public...
Left. By James Todhunter ("Tod") Sloan, famed oldtime jockey who died apparently destitute in Los Angeles last December (TIME, Dec. 11; Jan. 1): $9,500 in trust to his ten-year-old daughter...